Link: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-approval-rating-plummets-independents-flee-1781206

On the eve of his State of the Union address, the numbers arrived before the speech ever could. A new CNN/SSRS poll places Donald Trump's approval rating at 36%, a figure that does not merely suggest weakness but signals erosion — especially among voters who once floated between parties.

The survey, conducted between 17 and 20 February among 2,496 adults and released on 23 February 2026, captures a presidency under visible strain. Independents, in particular, appear to be moving away. Just 26% now approve of Trump's performance, 15 points lower than at the same moment last year.

The slide is not isolated. It is layered.

Approval ratings often move in increments. This shift has been sharper.

Overall, 63% of respondents disapprove of Trump's job performance. Nearly half of all adults, 49%, say they strongly disapprove. Only 19% strongly approve. The gap between those two figures — strong opposition versus strong support — offers a clearer measure of intensity than headline approval alone.

Even more telling is the question about priorities. Just 32% say Trump has focused on the right issues. Sixty-eight per cent believe he has not paid sufficient attention to the country's most pressing problems.

He'll announce something superficially positive and they'll come back to him. The American "independent" voter is a gullible fool - they always have been.

Dwindlin’ Donald is doing even worse than the failing NY Times!

bla bla bla...then they elect JD in 2028.

He's hurting everyone's wallets, there are only so many diversions and Lies you can get away with while peoples wallets are empty.

Whats amazing is he took over after Biden had more or less fixed inflation (yeah, wages were still catching up, but it was more or less solved). He was handed a golden opportunity to push his policies if he just laid off the tarrifs. Instead he's taken a fairly solid and growing economy and decimated it in a year.

The only thing I can hope for is that some people start to recognize republicans are terrible at managing the economy.

To be fair, yeah, a large chunk of humans are pretty fucking stupid:

People keep joking about how AIs majorly fail the "I am going to wash my car, should I walk or drive to the car wash" question, but 28.5% of humans when asked the same question in the same way with no additional context also answered "you should walk to the car wash."

So roughly 30% of people are absolute fucking tools no matter what, apparently.

He's also losing the MAHA moms, who helped elect him, after TACOing on glyphosates and food dyes

republicans are terrible at managing the economy.

No, no, wrong takeaway. They're great at managing the economy for the 1%, the wealthiest in the country, at the expense of literally everyone else.

People need to stop missing that a large number of corporations are making out like fucking bandits right now.

Even if refunds are handed out for tariffs, the bulk of that will end up on corporate coffers as instant profit and won't be trickling down to the workers anytime soon.

Everything is rigged to help the wealthiest do anything but lose.

So, in that respect, he's doing a bangup job. People need to start recognizing when Republicans talk about a "good" economy, that they mean for them and their buddies. The Big Club that We Ain't In. Of course it seems like our economy sucks, but we're not the economy they give a shit about doing well.

19% are proud nazis, got it

Percentages don't matter in history books.

For better or worse, who actually does things is what's in the history books.

"I don't care about you, I just want your vote." - one of the few times the Yam was honest.

Well, he got their vote. And he still doesn't care about them.

If Europe really moves away from big tech and new trade deals are made around the US, then those gains will be short lived.

They won't care because their goal is total ownership. Money is just a vehicle to achieve it.

Why bother? Elections don't matter to him anymore. Every election that ISN'T about him is irrelevant and the ones that are, he won't respect the results of anyway.

The wealthy are multinational. They will just leave the USA, liquidate their companies and holdings here, and use their wealth to purchase new ones elsewhere. They don't see borders the way we do, they are bleeding the US dry to leave it behind when they're done.

If Trump manages to hold onto power past Jan 2029, he won't need votes to do it.

Bullshit.

This is interesting because it fits with 27% Crazification Factor - a hypothesis based on the 2004 Obama vs. Keyes Senate race. Basically it's saying the same - 27% of the population will vote for anything.

Plus these are GLOBAL corporations and the 1% are truly free to globe trot.

1/3 of the population, evenly distributed regardless of country or territory, seems to always be psychopathic Nazis. It's a constant at this point.

"YEA BUT THE DOW THO. HAVE YOU SEEN THE DOW?!"

36% is so. fucking. high. I don't understand how this is wrapped as good news.
One respondent in 3 approves of what has been going on. 1 in 5 wholeheartedly agrees.

In Germany right now, Merz seems to hover around 25-35%. Macron is at 20% approval and has hardly broken 30% in the past 2 years. Neither of them built a golden ballroom, accepted foreign billions, shat their pants on tv, have their name all over the Epstein files or are actively dismantling their democracy.

Even more telling is the question about priorities. Just 32% say Trump has focused on the right issues.

Very telling indeed...

Yeah he's old and shitty, literally. But at least he hates brown people just as much as we do